They Got Back at Him

A populist in the best sense of the word: pro-labor, pro-worker, pro-citizen. America’s downfall is largely due to the fact that we don’t make ’em like Traficant anymore. Unbelievably in this era of American politician’s abject prostitution for the apartheid regime of Jew bigotry in Zionist-occupied Palestine, Traficant never once bowed to the Israel lobby and their underhanded and dishonest smear tactics. Which, of course, made the bastards at AIPAC just want to get him more.

But even prison couldn’t break him.

He died doing real, physical labor on his family’s farm, something that one could scarcely imagine happening to any other Congressman.

America lost one of its few admirable statesmen of the modern period when former Congressman Jim Traficant (D-OH) died on September 27, 2014, after sustaining fatal injuries in a farm accident four days earlier. A telling passage in Target: Traficant: The Outrageous Inside Story of How the Justice Department, the Israeli Lobby and the American Mass Media Conspired to Set Up and Take Down Congressman Jim Traficant (2008), by the patriot solon’s fellow American Free Press contributor Michael Collins Piper, takes on a tragic resonance in view of how the great man would die:

Now – for a moment – ponder what we’re actually discussing here: that is, we have a member of the United States Congress (a member of a very privileged class here in America) helping do chores on his aged father’s farm. You don’t find many members of Congress doing something like that, and this says…